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Lausiac History

A page from the Lausiac History in a 14th-century Greek manuscript

The Lausiac History (Koinē Greek: Ἡ Λαυσαϊκή Ἱστορία, romanized: E Lavsaike Istoria) is a seminal work archiving the Desert Fathers (early Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian desert) written in 419–420 AD by Palladius of Galatia, at the request of Lausus, chamberlain at the court of the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II.[1][2]

Originally written in Greek, the Lausiac History was so popular it was soon translated into Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Geʽez, Latin, Syriac and Sogdian.[3]

  1. ^ Introduction, in public domain Section source.
  2. ^ Lausiac History. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica.
  3. ^ Eric Orlin, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (Routledge, 2016), p. 526.

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